DBMS > Axibase vs. GeoSpock vs. Google BigQuery vs. Postgres-XL

System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. GeoSpock vs. Google BigQuery vs. Postgres-XL

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Name

GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualization

Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scale

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.29
Rank	#292	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#256	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Website

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

geospock.com

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.postgres-xl.org

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

Developer

Axibase Corporation

GeoSpock

Google

Initial release

2013

2010

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

Current release

15585

2.0, September 2019

10 R1, October 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Community Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paid

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Java, Javascript

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

short, integer, long, float, double, decimal, string

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

temporal, categorical

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

in JavaScript

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Automatic sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

ACID

MVCC

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per table

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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